United Nations

Toture Awareness Month

Over at Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, Jonathan Schwarz points out that June is Torture Awareness Month. Quoting from the announcement on TortureAwareness.org: June 26th is the date that the United Nations has marked as the International Day in Support of Survivors and Victims of Torture. This y ... More >>

Tolls At Any Cost?

Couldn't help but take a gander at the latest Honk! column in the Register, which is a must-read for anyone who can get past the fact that writer Jim Radcliffe looks far too happy to be a local transportation columnist. Unless, of course, it's driven him barking mad, in which case the grin makes sen ... More >>

Staying the Course

At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A te ... More >>

Best LA Times Page EVER!!!

Today. Friday, March 10, 2006. Los Angeles Times. Page A8. Along the thinnest of news holes, with just enough room all six columns to tuck in an inch of type per column and this headline in, eyeballing it, what appears to be 30-point type across four of those columns: "United Nations Report Says 1.1 ... More >>

Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Rohrabacher Joins ACLU?

Dana Adopts ACLUish Torture Position! At an Oct. 12 rally, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Skipped Vietnam Combat Duty) repeatedly blasted solitary prison confinement. “Long periods of solitary confinement are considered torture,” Rohrabacher said to a tiny Huntington Beach crowd that looked st ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 10/23

FARMER’S MARKET, 4-8pm Held every Tuesday night, Brea’s market features fresh grown produce from local farmers, as well as unique crafts and specialty items from local crafters. Birch St. (between Madrona Ave. & Walnut Ave.), Brea, (714) 674-0801 www.breadowntown.com/BDT-events2.htm WINE & MAGI ... More >>

Crocoshit Dundee?

Local water officials, who are looking to Australia for expertise on how to survive one of the worst droughts in California's recorded history, hosted former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at its monthly luncheon on Thursday, something that prompted Rupert Murdoch's Aussie papers to mock Beattie, ... More >>

Virtual Tax

Cox and Packard find a war they can winagainst a nonexistent tax

Dollars and No Sense

Cox and Packard find a war they can winagainst a nonexistent tax

'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Remake Misses the Point, and That's a Klaatu Barada No-No

Cox and Packard find a war they can winagainst a nonexistent tax

Mahvash Mossaed: I Paint a Woman's Life Opening Reception

Mahvash Mossaed: I Paint a Woman's Life Opening Reception

A Raw Nerve

Elaborately choreographed pantomime reveals a nation torn asunder

Casus Belli

OC Peace Bus

Commie Girl

The Sweet Spot: Another week of tasty treats

Shit People Sent Us

The Sweet Spot: Another week of tasty treats

Dark Continentals

Hollywoods Africa fetish continues with Beyond the Gates

Commie Girl

California Coming Home: How I deducted my summer vacation

'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

NOT showing at NBFF:

Pray for Me: The Jason Jessee Movie

Montezumas Revenge

I go to Mexico, and America falls apart

Dressed to Thrill

Pollacks The Interpreter

Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

Terminator Genes

High Frequency

A local minister has his sights on Orange County community radio

An Informed Citizenry

A local minister has his sights on Orange County community radio

My Laguna

Feeling most at home at a place that's not

Facts and Shivers

Feeling most at home at a place that's not

Colonial Capitalism

Feeling most at home at a place that's not

Our Man In Baghdad

Feeling most at home at a place that's not

'We Will Not Resolve This With Cannons

Hardened Vietnam hero says hes anti-war

Daddy Warbucks

Hardened Vietnam hero says hes anti-war

What Are We Doing There?

How to fight the war from home

I Hear America Sinking

How to fight the war from home

The Little Engine Who Took His Place in the Underclass

And other new-millennium stories for American kids

Couched in Ignorance

Your TV and the Middle East

A Good Head of Anger

Michael Franti seems more intent on winning people over than on pissing them off, but hes okay with pissing them off

Cut and Paste

Hey! Its been a tough week!

The Year in Letters

Hey! Its been a tough week!

One Crazy Bird

Hey! Its been a tough week!

Behold John Bolton and His Moustache at Balboa Bay Club

John Robert Bolton, the neocon's neocon, laps up the hosannas of fellow knuckle-draggers May 28 when he is the special guest of the World Affairs Council of Orange County. The nonprofit, 500-member council--which since its 1967 founding has hosted Prince Andrew, Vicente Fox, Hans Blix and several ot ... More >>

Obama, Economy, War, Swine Flu, Iran Election Crack Alamanac's Top 10 News Topics of 2009

Here are The World Almanac and Book of Facts Top Ten News Topics of 2009:​1. Obama Presidency Begins. With the U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Barack Obama swearing in as the nation's 44th president Jan. 20 in Washington, DC.her ... More >>

Updated: Orly Taitz Asks United Nations for 'Protection'

Trevor Keen / OC Weekly​The lawyer retained by Dr. Orly Taitz to fight against her $20,000 sanctions today issued a press release saying the Laguna Niguel dentist has appealed to the United Nations for protection from "persecution" in the United States.Quoth the release:

The US and the UN in the 21st Century

Nixon Library

Ninth Circuit Okays 19 Cents Per Hour Pay

Get back to work​The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this morning rejected the notion that federal inmates who work must be paid "fair wages" or their constitutional rights are violated. 

Dan Black

Detroit Bar

Summer Guide 2010

The Weekly's guide to summer and sports

[UPDATED] Devendra Banhart Deejaying at Mesa Tonight!

www.myspace.com/devendrabanhartUpdate: you can pay a $10​ membership fee to get in if you don't R.S.V.P. Check out the flyer after the jump.Today, the S.U.N. group is hosting  "CAMM Tuesdays" at Mesa (725 Baker St., Costa Mesa) featuring a DJ set by folkie Devendra Banhart. First, a glos ... More >>

'Art Shack'-ing Up

The Laguna Art Museum brings skeezy slums and screwball shanties to beach-babe-ville

Sir Richard Branson

UCI Student Center Pacific Ballroom

End Days Alert: Radioactive Plume to Reach OC From Japan Late Friday

​Here's the bad news: a United Nations forecast says that a so-called "plume" of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will reach Southern California by late Friday after blowing across the Pacific Ocean via the Aleutian Islands. The plume is then expected to continue its eastward journey ... More >>

Legalize Pot, Say Geniuses at Global Commission on Drug Policy

​The Los Angeles Times, and just about every other newspaper that covers world news, is reporting today that the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an influential think-tank made up of world leaders, has just issued a report calling the war on drugs "a costly failure" and calling on the United Stat ... More >>

'Cars 2' and Others Are Summer's Season Openers

[SUMMER GUIDE] Superheroes, sequels and TWO Conans!